Narinjara news
NASAKA AT ANN CONFISCATE SHRIMPS
CARRIED TO BURMA PROPER
Sittwe, 31st January 02: Shrimps carried in a truck from Sittwe was confiscated at the Nasaka
Immigration and Security camp No. 25 at Ann, according to a manager of a Shrimp
export company in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State.
On January 14th, a truck
driver, Zaw Myo Lwin, 24, who was driving a truck of Myoma Zani Transport Ltd, was
stopped at Nasaka Camp 25 and his truck was found
carrying 550 viss (1 viss =
1.6 kg) of Shrimp in ten boxes owned by Aung Mrat Thu
Co. and Ray Tun Gyaw Co. The guards at the check
point demanded kyat 50,000 as bribe from the driver who produced necessary
documents and papers to them. He produced the receipts of the taxes he paid at
Ann to the guards. The taxation of the shrimps he was carrying was as follows:
1. 400 viss of
big shrimp @ kyat 22 a viss = kyat 8,800
2. 150 viss of
small shrimp @ kyat 21 a viss = kyat 3,150
The receipts carried the date of 13th January 02 and official stamps of
Department of Excise and Taxes.
The Nasaka guards forced the driver to pay kyat 1,13,295 as taxes because they demanded that, the driver had
paid taxes legally for 95 viss of shrimps only though
he produced the above receipts for taxes.. After paying taxes as demanded, the
driver went to the Western Command and lodged a complaint there. A high-ranking
Officer from the Western Command followed the driver and he took the money from
the gate guards and returned it to the driver along with 95 viss
of shrimp. For the good gesture made by the high ranking officer, the driver
was made to hand over 455 viss of shrimp to him for
the consumption of the Western Command forces and their families!
The unnamed shrimp company manager told our correspondent that, the business
cannot be carried out without bribing the military authority present everywhere
in
The driver hails from Myinkhan town of